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Anglo-Afghan | Founder @AfgEye | Bylines @newlinesmag @CityMonitorAI

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احمد وليد کاکړ

1 year

Yesterday, the #Taliban announced the expansion of their ban. #Afghan girls, already banned from secondary school, are now banned from university. I examine the legacy of a long century of education being politicised in #Afghanistan . My latest @AfgEye

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Afghanistan’s Century of Politicised Education

As the Taliban ban on girls' schools is expanded to universities, Ahmed-Waleed Kakar examines a century of politicised education in

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@awsanzar

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2 years

The Army's failure to stand with an elected Prime Minister against a *potentially* foreign-initiated plot will again damage its credibility and vindicate its foes. Flaws aside, I always liked Imran. He also greatly helped Afghans in KPK. Sabotage of principled politics is sad.

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8 months

Did you burst into tears after posting this tweet?

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Dr Jordan B Peterson

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Give 'em hell @netanyahu Enough is enough

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3 years

Panjsher was held hostage to the ego of one man and the video game fantasy of another who thought he was his father's incarnate. They led their sons into an unwinnable war, needlessly killing hundreds, and then predictably ran away. The people of Panjsher deserve better.

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2 years

This is big. A Deobandi (?) seminary in Herat releases a fatwa (religious ruling) declaring education for girls not just permissible, but emphasising its necessity. Domestic pressure on the government, even from quarters more inclined to support it, is building up.

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د هرات عالي دار العلوم، چې سرپرستي یې مولانا خواجه جلیل الله مولوي زاده کوي، د نجونو د دیني او عصري تعلیم د ضرورت او جواز فتوی ورکړې.

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Donald Trump came to Afghanistan and gave a speech in which he had Ashraf Ghani literally removed offstage to stand with US soldiers. Yet it's Imran Khan's badly phrased, generic remarks on cultural sensitivity that provoke the most angst from predictable quarters. I wonder why.

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The Kabul Bubble routinely mock 'uneducated' villagers. While 'educated', they somehow didn't learn that wars are not won with hashtags. Or that when you're no longer useful, your allies ditch you. They learnt political science from Mr. Bean but they're very talented in thievery.

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'We don't mind Afghan girls starving, as long as they starve in school.'

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#Afghanistan is not 'facing starvation' by some miraculous event. #Afghans are being deliberately starved by the world as collective punishment for their government. #EndAfghanStarvation

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I wonder who the Pakistani military had in mind when killing Afghan civilians in Ramadan. Was it to distract the domestic audience, where it's losing credibility after Imran Khan's ouster? Or was it DC, for whom the the Army could again be, as Imran Khan coined it, a "hired gun"?

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I spoke to my cousin whose house in Kabul was searched today. The search team asked for permission to enter and included two female personnel. "They entered with manners and respect, contented themselves, and left." One story amongst millions, but nonetheless worthy of sharing.

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A peaceful Kabul hosts sporting competitions whilst war returns to Europe. How quickly our world can change.

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95 years later, Afghanistan is again an Emirate.

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If they can't beat you with their guns/helicopters/tanks/jets/B52s/drones, they'll resort to starvation and poverty. A poverty largely caused by their failed, idiotic war and its support of literal rapists. Repeat after me: the West is humanitarian.

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Canada will support G7 sanctions against the Taliban, Trudeau says

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will push other leaders to support sanctions against the Taliban when the G7 meets Tuesday

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

Wow. This isn't commonly known. A copy of the Quran apparently handwritten by Hazrat Ali (RA) during the Caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan (RA) is in the Afghan National Archives, having been placed there during the reign of Amir Sher Ali Khan.

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افغانستان کي د #قران_کريم تر ټولو زړه نسخه: د حضرت علي رض په لاسي ليکل سوی قران د حضرت عثمان رض خلافت کي افغانستان ته راوړل سو او بيا ۲۰۰ کاله وړاندي د تبرک د پاره د کابل په ځينو مساجدو کي پروت وو، بلآخره #امير_شېرعلي_خان دغه قران کريم #ملي_آرشيف ته يوړ او اوس هالته ساتل کېږي.

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There's a lot of talk over how or if the #Taliban have 'changed'. I interviewed Anas Haqqani, rising Taliban leader and asked him. He opened up on prison, his life, childhood, family and how he sees #Afghanistan going forward. @AnasHaqqani313 @newlinesmag

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Taliban, the Next Generation: an Interview with Anas Haqqani

Anas Haqqani, the youngest son of a jihadist commander who fought the Russians and the Americans, tells Newlines that the Taliban has learned from its mistakes. But can the Taliban leave their brutal...

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Once again, Pakistani Pashtun nationalists attempting to milk the cow of Afghan misery to remain relevant even at a time of national celebration. The flag isn't banned, by the way.

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Mohsin Dawar

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The Afghan flag that is banned in Afghanistan has been raised high by the Afghan cricket team. This is the victory of a nation that has been taken hostage by terrorists. More power to Afghan players.May they keep the Afghan flag flying high in defiance of terror and injustice.

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Biden stole the reserves of a country that US bombed for 20 years, then decides to spend those reserves and destroy the Afghan currency, so he can pay Americans and fund 'aid' that Afghans will pay for. 'Human rights will be the centre of our foreign policy' - Biden once said.

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It's no secret that most coverage on #Afghanistan bores me. That's why I decided to directly interview the spokesman of the #Taliban 's most controversial Ministry, to find out more about him, his ministry, and the new Afghanistan. My latest @newlinesmag .

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In Afghanistan, Vice and Virtue Are Front and Center

After 20 years of war, the Taliban’s social policies are causing divisions even within their own ranks

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One side is complaining about foreign interference in the form of alleged Pakistani invasion whilst also pleading for and cheering on American B52s obliterating bazaars and city centres. Days after shouting Allahu Akbar. Sums up the last twenty years pretty well.

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Many diaspora, especially in the US, have parents who (generally) consisted of Kabul's upper classes and fled in the 70s/80s. They don't seem to realise the Afghanistan that their parents fondly recall is largely dead. Or, it never even existed beyond Kabul in the first place.

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My fellow Afghans, these are the people who present the news and form the narrative about your country. Understand that this is how they actually view your people and country.

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Joe Biden, President of a country which lost 1 million people in a Civil War, and recently witnessed an assault on its national legislature over disputed election results, is trying to taunt Afghans on their lack of unity. What's next? Harvey Weinstein teaching us about consent?

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I spoke to ex-Taliban villagers (now farmers) in Zharey, Qandahar. In principle, they told me they weren't opposed to sending their daughters to school, even until 12th grade. They strongly believed, however, that 'education' was being used to again undermine Islam in Afghanistan

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It's surreal to be back in #Afghanistan . I'm proud that amongst other brilliant journalists, @paykhar and I represented @AfgEye . We directly reported from the RTA event that marked the 1st anniversary of the #Taliban takeover and end of the occupation. More to come. InshAllah.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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Congratulations and well played to #Pakistan We should still proud of the #Afghan team and the resilience they showed. The ultimate win for all is more sport and more friendly competition. #AFGvPAK

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3 years

They are gone. They take with them defeat, a damaged ego and a banana Republic that collapsed before they even left. Those they imposed to leech off the country are largely gone. The gloomy chapter they opened is closed. The real work starts now; God make us worthy of His favour.

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The people who lied to you about beheaded and baked babies are, of course, telling you the truth about Al-Shifa hospital.

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The previous regime's opportunists dragged the country to the abyss in their anti-Pakistan crusade and lost their government in doing so. Now in exile, even humanitarian aid is not free of their propaganda, now being debunked by Afghan journalists. Rarely am I this speechless.

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'We threaten girls and teachers alike with starvation and freeze the money that would pay the teacher's salaries. But yes, girls should go to school!'

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There was no Khamas in Masjid Al-Aqsa or Jerusalem when Israeli troops and Jewish extremists made it a Ramadan hobby to storm the complex and attack elderly worshippers, year after year.

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As Afghans, we should continue holding future governments accountable the same way we did Ghani's Triumvirate. Let's do so without giving a platform to ideologues or profiteers who encouraged war for two decades only to now flee. Such scum shouldn't be listened to again. Ever.

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What I hope from the Taliban is to not aim for the bare minimum. Governing better than the previous regime of rapists, thieves and warlords isn't enough, neither is it much of an achievement. It's time to be ambitious. To aim for and achieve much more than the bare minimum.

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20 years, trillions, airstrikes, drones, suicide attacks, tens of thousands of troops, non-stop propaganda. The white flags re-enter Qandahar almost as suddenly as they first emerged, even for those of us who expected it. It is never worth killing your people for Washington.

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In 2001, a certain group watched the US bomb Kabul and asked 'is that all you've got?!' That group now complain that the Taliban were helped by Pakistan. A fortnight ago, they were in Pakistan pleading for help, having fled there before Kabul's fall. I will not name that group.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Whereas we once lost hundreds of hundreds of lives every week without the bat of an eyelid, today the country mourns the tragic loss of one life. Together. The news from Zabul is deeply saddening. May Allah envelop Haidar in His love and grant his parents forgiveness.

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All it took was Mullah Bradar travelling to Qandahar for local/global media to allege he: 1) is dead 2) got in a fist fight 3) has been sidelined The propaganda now seeks to paralyse the country by circulating rumours. The Taliban should focus on hunger/economy, not on rumours.

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Just try to imagine what your average Afghan villager would think if he/she knew that diaspora Afghans, who've reached what would be seen as the pinnacle of material wellbeing, were advocating for actions that would doom their supposed countrymen to starvation. A strange world.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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'Aba [Dr. Najib] returned home...we gathered around him for dinner, catching up on the day’s highlights' Did Aba reveal that his day's highlights included electrocuting prisoners, pulling out their nails or forcing bottles in their anus? @muskanajibullah

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My father was brutally killed by the Taliban. The US ignored his pleas for help | Muska Najibullah

I am the daughter of a former Afghan president. I am sharing my story for the first time because I see history repeating itself

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

God give me strength to one day write a sequel or expand on this article. For now, if you're bored of high-pitched bickering and finger pointing, and want to learn about the circumstances and context of the Durand Agreement: read the article I wrote.

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The Durand Line: Beyond Nationalist Fables

For decades, the Durand Line has triggered deeply emotional debates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As is usual, what was a

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2 years

Much being said right now in response to Imran Khan being deposed. History though, I feel, will remember him standing in Pakistan's parliament after 15 August and declaring that Afghans had again "broken the shackles of slavery." Did that attitude of his play a role in his fate?

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Again, Pakistan attacks Afghanistan during Ramadan. Again, it attacks its own civilians already displaced by it and forced into refuge in Afghanistan. Old habits die hard, and Pakistan's military junta seems only to know how to brutalise its own people, whether at home or abroad.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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Some Afghans, alongside many in the West, would rather see Afghanistan continue to burn and suffer under a future Taliban dominated setup, instead of acknowledging that the pathetic experiment of the past two decades was an abysmal failure. Sheer vindictiveness.

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History will record that as a nuclear-armed settler colony rampaged through a small and blockaded strip of 2m people, the leaders of the free and civilised world did not remain indifferent. They stationed their naval forces off the strip's coast - to support the settler colony.

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An Afghan refugee deported from Pakistan retells his documents being torn by Pakistani police and having 2,000 rupees seized from him. That isn't, however, what he's upset about. He's upset, he says, because the police also slapped him. Roughly fifty times. Sickening.

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Rahim لغماني

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دا (تذکره) یې راته وشکوله، دوه زره روپۍ یې راڅخه واخیستي، بیا یې ټاپه کړه. پدې هم نه یم او نه په دوه زره روپیو هم نه یم ... پنځوس سپیړي یې را نه وویستلي 😢😭

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'the boys even ignored Quran readings. But [when] the national anthem came on, they would freeze...I was initially shocked to see that they didn't do the same for the Quran, but the reasoning was clear: The UAE was de-emphasizing Islam in public life.'

What I Taught in the Emirates — and What It Taught Me

The UAE wanted loyal citizens above all to preserve its political model; that primary lesson filtered down to the education system, even if it wasn’t written in the curriculum itself, in the ways...

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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Mullah Bradar Akhund, once imprisoned in #Pakistan as a senior #Taliban commander, today welcomes a high level Pakistani delegation in #Kabul as #Afghan Deputy Prime Minister. How life can change.

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You can't help but wonder what the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas (pictured on the far right) , is thinking. He dutifully played his role and partook in this cringefest all for what? The slaughter of his own people being cheered on by the same Western capitals.

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Pepe Escobar

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2015. These "leaders" - Yahu included - march in solidarity with the slain Charlie Hebdo journalists. 2023. Israel kills over 90 journalists in Gaza. ZERO solidarity from the "our values" West.

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Observe Pakistani Pashtun nationalists. They're opposed to peace in Afghanistan. They want more poor and hungry Afghan soldiers to die fighting the Taliban in an anti-Punjab crusade. They, rather joining the crusade, are willing only to wear red caps or scream slogans at sit-ins.

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Western secularism is conspicuously missing with Israel. Israel's right to exist? The Old Testament says so! An Israeli PM literally invoking apocalyptic biblical prophecies to wage war? The West looks away. Secularism is a tool, primarily used to bully Muslim-majority states.

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Qandahar, Afghanistan.

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Mufti Taqi's comments raise more questions than they answer. If constitutions alone can make states sufficiently 'Islamic', wouldn't the the Taliban's war (which he endorsed) be 'illegitimate' like the TTP's? The Afghan Republic, like Pakistan, also had an 'Islamic' constitution.

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The US could never escape the reality that #Afghan national identity was largely forged through: 1) Islam 2) Resisting imperialism. That's why, I explained on @thinking_muslim , the US was doomed to a lack of legitimacy and failure from the start. Link:

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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There is a lot to be learnt from observing how deeply unsettled and disturbed some people are. They become very uncomfortable seeing Afghans who are *not* paid by foreign embassies entering the field of media.

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And trust Taliban controlled media? Wow.

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The US signed a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban. The US broke the agreement by unilaterally extending the withdrawal's deadline. The US oversaw its client regime's collapse before the withdrawal was even complete. The US is now waging an economic war against all Afghans.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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You know what didn't age well at all? Promoting nominally Muslim but functionally identitarian leftists because 'they will at least support Palestine.' Apparently not; who could ever have guessed?! Dear, oh dear.

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Ilhan Omar

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I condemn the horrific acts we are seeing unfold today in Israel against children, women, the elderly, and the unarmed people who are being slaughtered and taken hostage by Hamas. Such senseless violence will only repeat the back and forth cycle we've seen, which we cannot allow

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'Filthy turbans' 'Smelly beards' In Afghanistan, it is common for 'Human Rights Activists' to be filled with as much hatred, or more, than those they think they oppose. The hatred and the foaming mouth usually and interestingly fixates on the cultural dress of their compatriots.

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You opine on topics ranging from the 'crisis' of modern Arabic and Muslim immigration all the way to Afghanistan's supposed inability to modernise and the Taliban insurgency. What is your limit? Where will the pearls of your all-encompassing wisdom not be imparted to us peasants?

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شرق‌زده sharghzadeh

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The biggest issue we as Muslims have is that with live with fantasies and delusions. We need reality checks. We imagine that Islam is the "fastest growing religion!" because of dawa and conversion, when really it is our birth rates. We imagine that a Muslim takeover of Europe

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The slightest possibility of Afghanistan succeeding could not and cannot ever be allowed. It would legitimise overthrowing the philosophy underpinning the 'rules based international order'. Afghanistan's success would legitimise the weak standing up to, and defeating, the strong.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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I found this recently in an old drawer. Relevant given how education in Afghanistan is an ongoing topic. Pictured is my grandfather's promotion (in Pashto) by the Minister of Education in 1962, coinciding with Independence Day. Why don't we have handwriting like this anymore?

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Those who praised the 2001 massacre of thousands of Talib POWs because "the only good Talib is a dead Talib" now condemn the Taliban reportedly killing POWs. Those who condemned the 2001 massacres now praise the Taliban's summary execution of POWs in Panjsher. Depressing.

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One of the things Pakistan was right on was there being no military solution to Afghanistan. The same applies to the TTP. A military approach will only kill more people on both sides, and cause greater suffering for the tribal areas that have suffered enough in the crossfire.

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I wrote this last year to briefly list some inconvenient facts about Ahmad Shah Massoud. Massoud Week (a longer holiday than Christmas in Rome) was then still celebrated. This year, I think not. For everyone asking why Massoud wasn't a saint, here you are.

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The Untold History of Ahmad Shah Massoud

For the last two decades, Ahmad Shah Massoud has been lionised as the national hero of Afghanistan. In this piece,

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Years ago, someone I was speaking to and compared Ashraf Ghani to Bashar Al Assad. I laughed in their face and called them ridiculous. Looking now at the government's airstrikes in Lashkar Gah, perhaps I was wrong, and they were right. God protect Helmand and Afghanistan.

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Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

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Biden stole the Afghan Central Bank's reserves and will distribute it amongst Americans. He will also use those reserves to fund aid for Afghans. It's Afghan money. Afghans should decide what to do with it, not Biden. If he's making Afghans pay for it, then it isn't 'aid'.

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The New York Times

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Breaking News: President Biden is moving to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets between 9/11 victims’ families and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. The highly unusual set of moves is expected to be announced on Friday.

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We know the links between the previous regime's intelligence agency and Daesh. We know Amrullah Saleh's role in that agency's creation and operation. We know Saleh's activity whilst also witnessing increased Daesh attacks following 15th August. Questions that aren't being asked?

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احمد وليد کاکړ

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Over 900 people dead in an earthquake in Paktika/Khost; woefully neglected areas of #Afghanistan that have no functional health system despite receiving much foreign attention, overwhelmingly via bombs and bullets, for 20 years. I pray Afghans overcome our never ending nightmare.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

According to some, I am a Pashtun nationalist and ISI puppet. Either they don't know what Pashtun nationalism's relationship with Pakistani intelligence is, or they feel threatened by anyone with a Pashtun surname who doesn't have Ahmad Shah Massoud as their desktop background.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

Sex slavery, hundreds of Achakzai massacred, Pakistani threats to shoot down Afghan aircraft in Spin Boldak, 50k Pakistani madrassa graduates in Afghanistan, Pakistani drones bombiny Panjsher, now Mullah Bradar throwing tea at the Haqqanis in Arg. I wonder what else we will hear.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

I think this is my second time winning this award. I'm on a roll.

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@BeghairatAgency

2 years

Beghairat Of The Day Award goes to this Ridiculous man @awsanzar . The man is ridiculous! Incredibly ridiculous. He believes he is an intellectual. How can a man be an intellectual when he favours locking up women? He looks like a goat and thinks like a goat 🐐 #TalibanTerrorists

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

'Thank you for guarding me and ensuring I got to my plane unharmed, sir. Please strike a pose, preferably fearsome, as I take a photo of you. I am going to upload it on the Internet to show people you're actually still a savage.'

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

You equate a style of dress worn by literally millions of Afghans with 'jihad' and the Taliban (a political organisation with a maximum of 100k people). This is the best example of why the War on Terror, whose outdated terminology you're still using, failed. You should reflect

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Mawlawi Mujib ur-Rahman Ansari was one of, if not the most, prominent religious scholars of Afghanistan. He was today killed in his mosque in Herat as he led Friday prayers, minutes after attending an economic conference in which Mullah Bradar himself was present. Dark days.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

8 months

An MMA fighter bullies a defenceless orphan for years. The orphan one day retaliates, lands a hard punch, and breaks a tooth. The bully, mad with rage, pummels the orphan with all the force he can muster, as his friends cheer on. This tweet isn't about MMA fighters or orphans.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

4 months

'They hate us because of our freedoms.'

@MiddleEastEye

Middle East Eye

4 months

BREAKING: US vetoes UN Security Council Resolution for immediate Gaza ceasefire for the third time since 7 October. • 13 members voted in favour • The UK abstained • The US vetoed

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

Where are the fancy think-tanks, people in skinny ties and elaborate conferences where we chant words like 'pluralism' whilst talking about countering violent extremism? Or does it not matter because they're from the wrong religion?

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3 years

It takes high stages of cruelty to celebrate while seeing a place of worship set on fire.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

1 year

@AnOGabhannOg 'The Taliban are foreign to Afghanistan, but 45 countries with 150,000 troops imposing a Republic? With a set quota of women MPs in parliament? A selected President? AND an extra-constitutional chief executive? Totally indigenous to Afghanistan!'

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

It is foul to punish the people of Afghanistan collectively out of a petty grudge. The bare minimum is to allow them to slowly recover from the poverty you plunged them into through war, occupation and a ponzy-scheme economy that melted before you even left. #UnfreezeAfgMoney

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Pakistan's FM says that world patience with the Taliban is running out. He's right. The world had 2 decades of patience for a notoriously corrupt regime it imposed and mired in war, but only 15 months for a shadowy clique's dysfunctional but peaceful governance. One wonders why.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

Secular ethnonationalists in Afghanistan generally aren't brave enough to say 'we don't want Islamic law implemented in our country' because that would lose alienate even their co-ethnics. That's why they resort to saying 'we don't want Pashtunwali imposed on us'.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

"When Afghanistan was free."

@sakirkhader

Sakir Khader

2 years

This young child is standing in front of the graves of his father, brother, baby brother and cousin. All killed in an American mortar strike on Wardak. Just a few weeks before the Americans withdrew from Afghanistan.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

I'm not at all a cricket fan but the reality is that #Afghanistan 's cricket team has made #Afghans around the world proud. I hope the government, going forward, also encourages football so we can look to compete internationally in that too. #AFGvSCO

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

The Massouds called a rebellion, asked the world for weapons, failed comically, and fled to Tajikistan. Still, they have enough $ to hire lobbyists in DC despite fundraising thousands of $ 'for the people of Panjsher'. Yet, they should be given seats in government. 'Inclusivity'.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

Did the Americans come in with visas in late 2001? When they were bombing Kabul and the commanders of your mafia were criticising them for not bombing enough?

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Amrullah Saleh

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3 years

First time since 1947 a Pak delegation visited Afg without having Afghan visa or their passports stamped at the airport. Also for the 1st time someone a so called PM sitting at Arg has no CV & is mute. بار اول است که هیات پاکستانی بدون ویزه سفر رسمی به کابل انجام میدهند 1/2

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

'Winning a war is one thing, but governing is another. Governance is harder.' Usually pointed out by people who failed at both governing and war for two decades, to the people who won a war and have been in government for two months.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

The UK had 85 generals in 2017 *in total*. In Afghanistan, roughly half the UK population, Minister of Defence Fahim promoted 100 generals in 2002 *alone*. The first 90 were from Panjsher; Panjsher itself remained impoverished. The MoD was a ponzy scheme. The result is before us.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

1 year

Gestures that goes a long way. The #Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 'announce[d] a relief package of 10 million Afghanis ($111,024) and 5 million Afghanis ($55,512) to #T ürkiye and #Syria respectively on the basis of shared humanity and Islamic brotherhood.'

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Beyond semantics, the divide in Afghanistan is glaring. We have a chunk of a largely foreign educated intelligentsia for whom the country is free when bombarded and occupied by superpowers, but occupied when ruled by compatriots, however flawed, with whom they disagree.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Shockingly, it turns out that fighting a modern army is quite different to fighting angry farmers in sandals who you can call air support on in 15 minutes

@j_bigboote

Roberto, Your Friend

2 years

British ex-Army soldier/merc goes to war in Ukraine, gets hit with rockets/helicopter fire, runs scared into the woods, gets picked up by Ukraine Territorial Defense who torture him thinking he's a Russian spy, gets released, immediately goes back home to the UK.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

8 months

'If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would join, at some point, one of the terrorist groups.' - Ehud Barak: former Israeli Minister of Defence and Prime Minister.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

9 months

'Sayyids' really do come in all varieties and forms, including, apparently, as zealots of Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire.

@SShabbarZaidi

SyedShabbarZaidi

9 months

It is a myth that Afghans can’t be defeated. Maharaja Ranjit Singh conquered whole KPK, Khyber Pass, Kashmir & GB. Hari Singh Nalwa is still feared by Afghani mothers. Since we have changed our icons to barbarians across Khyber Pass therefore our society has been destroyed.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

Looking at Ukraine and the new Russia/US standoff, I can't help but remember what my paternal grandfather, may Allah shower him with mercy, said: "The Russians and the Americans will both kill you. The Russians with torture, and the Americans with laughter."

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

What's funny is that Farahnaz has also mocked the religiosity of Taliban merely for sitting next to women. Despite that, nothing can demonstrates how much much out of touch she is with the customs of rural Afghans more than this tweet/picture.

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Farahnaz Forotan

3 years

“My encounter with Mr. Shahin filled me with terror. As he answered my questions, his eye rolled in every direction but mine, as if he saw me an embodiment of sine and evil. I felt unsafe even in a room full of people and thousands of miles away from Afghanistan.” @nytopinion

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

When you're an old man who started his career as a communist, were expelled from Afghanistan after even Dr. Najib realised you were a fraud, and aren't taken seriously even in your home province, you spend your days rambling and tweeting about your neighbour to a shrinking crowd.

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Afrasiab Khattak

3 years

Taliban militia isn’t a pol org with an idea of governance. It’s a demolition squad of Pak security state for turning Afg into an appendage. Afg refugee youth brainwashed in Pak madrasah (seminaries)are used as canon fodder. For the west it’s an instrument in its new Cold War.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

I spoke to @BBCWorld on the rapid advance of the #Taliban across #Afghanistan in #Herat and #Kandahar , how talks in #Doha stalled as a result of delaying tactics by the government in #Kabul and the need for all sides to now engage meaningfully for an orderly transition.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

His Excellency the Emir of Qatar has been a greater friend to #Afghanistan than the previous gang in Kabul, aa well as the section of Afghan diaspora busy enacting Bollywood scenes on Western streets or begging for sanctions against their country.

UNGA: Qatar’s emir urges world to engage with the Taliban

In speech to UN General Assembly, Sheikh Tamim addresses COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity and conflicts in the region.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

3 years

We didn't oppose the Massoud sanctification and posters to see those posters now be replaced by those of Mullah Omar and Mawlawi Jalaluddin. Would the two men themselves approve of this? Jalaluddin only approved of his pictures being circulated for politica/propaganda purposes.

@SecKermani

Secunder Kermani

3 years

New poster in Kabul: Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani

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احمد وليد کاکړ

2 years

For months, they cheered on an offensive that took apparently 2 days to collapse. Now they claim collective punishment with the usual ethnic slurs. From a fake news crowd that spent 20 years justifying the documented, much larger collective punishment of B52/drones. No thanks.

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احمد وليد کاکړ

6 months

'Ali, one of the Afghan special forces soldiers facing expulsion [by the UK], told the BBC he felt abandoned and betrayed by the UK. "During operations we fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the British," [he said], "as members of one family."'

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Elite Afghan troops face return to Taliban after UK 'betrayal'

About 200 British-trained special forces soldiers are in danger as Pakistan expels undocumented foreigners.

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